For the second time in just one week, a Super Hornet Fu/A-18 combat plane assigned to USS Harry S. Truman has been lost in the Red Sea, confirmed a defense official to CBS News. The two pilots aboard the plane suffered minor injuries in the order.
The official said in a statement that the Super Hornet was trying to land on the Truman flight deck on Tuesday “when a stop failed, which caused the aircraft to be overboard.”
An arrest is the mechanism that includes a detention cable to catch a combat plane and saafly slows it as it lands.
“Both aviators safely expelled and were rescued by a helicopter assigned to the Helicopter Combat (HSC) 11,” said the official. “The aviators were evaluated by the medical personnel and it was evaluated that they had minor injuries. No flight cover staff was injured.”
April 28, A super hornet He was being towed to Hangar de Truman’s bay when the crews lost control of the plane and went down the board, along with the towing tractor. A sailor suffered minor injuries in the incident.
Two US officials told CBS News that the initial reports suggested that the plane could have fallen byboard after the carrier became sharply while taking evasive measures against Yemen Houthi’s militants.
Sean Parnell, a pentagon spokesman, said in a statement that the super waspone that entered the Red Sea on Tuesday “was not beaten by the hutis.”
Truman Strike Strike Group has experienced several serious incidents since it was deployed in the Middle East in September 2024. In December, the USS Gettysburg Disabled by error A F/A-18 that had tasks outside the Truman. The crew of two people was able to expel safely.
In February, the Truman Accidentally crashed With a merchant ship near the Suez Canal.
Also Tuesday, President Trump revealed That the hutis backed by Iranians had agreed an agreement that would see them rushing the attacks on commercial and military ships in the Red Sea. These attacks began as a result of the assault of October 7, 2023 of Hamas.
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